Re: Pardus 2011.1

I used this for a while and loved it. Lovely, polished OS. The only reason I stopped using it was a general lack of available software in their repos, but other than that well worth a try. I'm sure their software base will improve over time, and I'm optimistic for the distros future.

Re: Pardus 2011.1

I did and they were very good, but I was still lacking a few of my favourite apps. I forget now which ones were missing specifically, but it was enough that I had to switch to another distro. Like I say, it wouldn't put me off trying the OS again though. You can tell it's one of those that will gather pace over time as word gets out. It may be a slow burner, but it'll get there.

EDIT: Hmmm looking at their repo list reminds me a little. I was using 64 bit which had less packages generally than 32 bit. I was missing stuff like K9Copy, DeVeDe, some codecs, K3b, Amarok, Banshee... I think that's some of the things notable by their absence.

By the way, it's very important to run a Pisi/software manager update after the installation. Many forget this. And then you only find 950 programs in the Pisi.
After the update it's around 4500 programs there (in the 32 bit version).http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Installation:Contents

And another aspect are if you counting dependies (meta packages) as a program to?
Pardus often included all dependies in one application so it only be counted as one package. But other distributions have them seperated.http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projects/pisi/PiSi.html